| Charles Dickens - 1867 - 570 pages
...Was grave for a minute or so. "My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
| Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...whist was Parson Dale's ! ladies and gentlemen, what is yours?" Bulwer. MICAWBER'S HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1871 - 526 pages
...grave for a minute or so. " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, " you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the lea& is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
| 1871 - 800 pages
...households and lightens hearts throughout Germany : •Annual income, twenty pounds ; annual expenditure, nineteen six; result, happiness. Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, twenty pounds nought and six ; result, misery.' There is no such wretched state of things in Germany as keeping up... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1872 - 384 pages
...grave for a minute or so. " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. . Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
| Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pages
...was grave for a minnte or so. "My other piece of advice, Copperfield," вaid Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds; annual expenditure nineteen,...income twenty pounds ; annual expenditure twenty pounds nonght and six, —result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...grave for a minute or so. " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, " you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result, misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the jod of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
| Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. Young. ECONOMY. " Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought, six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 386 pages
...of the world's wisdom on the subject ia most tersely epitomized in the words of Dickens's Micawber: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." Mr. Micawber's experience, so vividly depicted by Dickens, is that of thousands whose... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...of the world's wisdom on the subject is most tersely epitomized in the words of Dickens's Micawber: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.' 1 Mr. Micawber's experience, so vividly depicted by Dickens, is that of thousands whose... | |
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